A swinging battle broke the peace of early morning and lasted well on to midday. The attack was clever, the defence stubborn, the whole very picturesque, but, like so many other great battles, among ...
Article : 2,910 wordsDr. Kuyper is again busying himself on behalf of the Boers. He has arranged to meet Baron von Richto[?]en, the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, in Berlin after he ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Boer delegates, Messrs. Wessels and Wolmar[?]ns, have returned from America, and are now in Paris. They will confer with Dr. Leyds. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe principles of the Manchurian treaty between Russia and China have been settled. M. Lessar, the Russian Minister at Peking, has advised China to grant Thibet ...
Article : 142 wordsOn the occasion of the visit of the colonial Premiers to London in connection with the Coronation, a banquet is being promoted in their honour by the Royal Colonial Institute, ...
Article : 84 wordsThe body of the late Mr. C[?]cil Rhodes in the co[?]fin is lying at his house at Groot Schuur, near Capetown. On Saturday for seven hours a continuous stream of people, ...
Article : 53 wordsConsiderable interest attached to the operations at the Heads yesterday, when the whole line of first defence was called upon to repel an attack by an enemy on the entrance to Sydney Harbour. That ...
Article : 956 wordsThe "Daily Express" reports that Mr. Cecil Rhodes bequeathed £1[?]00 to Oriel College, Oxford, and that he has left over £1,000,000 to Oxford University to develop a ...
Article : 51 wordsGermany has proposed that a conference shall be held between Great Britain, France, the United States, and Germany, in order to prevent a monopoly of the use of wireless ...
Article : 47 wordsParisian shopkeepers lament that King Edward is not visiting the Continent this season. They attribute his decision to the objectionable comments which have ...
Article : 47 wordsCommandant de Wet and Mr. Steyn have returned to Parys from Hoopstad, where they were reported to be conferring with Mr. S[?]alk Burger. ...
Article : 35 wordsA united memorial service for the late Mr. C[?]il Rhodes was held yesterday in the Good Hope Hall, Capetown. The hall was crowded. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Chinese Government reports that serious rioting has occurred in the south of the Chi-li Province, and that great loss of life has taken place. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "Daily Mail" says that in the sweeping movement against the Boers in the Western Transvaal on the 24th instant Commandant D[?] lost nine men killed, four ...
Article : 47 wordsThe three N.S.W. companies, comprising 363 officers, n.c.o., and men, with staff, and forming part of the third battalion of the Federal Contingent, will embark this morning on ...
Article : 242 wordsA Yellow Book has been published by the French Government giving the despatches relative to the French claims against Turkey and the consequent temporary ...
Article : 131 wordsGreat floods have occurred in Tennessee in the United States. Twenty-two people have been drowned. The damage done by the floods is estimated at 4,000,000dol. (£800,000). ...
Article : 37 wordsA British patrol surprised 30 men of the commando of B[?]out at Lilliekloof in Cape Colony. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Chinese Minister at Tokio advises his Government that students should not be allowed to visit Japan because if they do so they might imbibe revolutionary ideas. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Treason Court at Cradock, Cape Colony, has tried 118 cases of treason. Twenty-six accused were acquitted, 92 were disenfranchised, and of these 48 had been ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Aborigines Protection Society has presented a memorial to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, asking him to unite with the other ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Berlin Post," in an inspired paragraph, states that the renewal of the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, and Italy) is assured. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Piet de Wet, a brother of Commandant Christian de Wet, is at [?]roonstad. Mr. Piet de Wet, in the course of an interview, denounced the foreign slanderers of Great ...
Article : 60 wordsThe French Senate has considered the Electoral Bill. The clause providing that in future Parliaments shall have a life of six years instead of four, as at present, has been ...
Article : 41 wordsThis morning the Carington Contingent of Rive[?]a bushmen, numbering 200 officers, n.c.os., and men, will embark with the third battalion Federal Contingent on board the transport ...
Article : 478 wordsMr. Charles Cowper[?] of Sydney, in a letter to the "Times," urges the British Government to contract for the purchase of a certain number of three-year-old horses for 10 years ...
Article : 75 wordsThe steamer Miowera arrived at Pinke[?]ba wh[?] this morning from Vancouver. The voyage was uneventful. The Miowera leaves to-night for Sydney. Whilst several men were out wallaby shooting on ...
Article : 63 wordsYesterday evening preparations were made for the attack on the line of water-pipes supplying Sydney. The officers of the various squadrons were instructed in the plan of attack, and Colonel Mackenzie, A.A.G., ...
Article : 1,300 wordsColonel Grimm, of the Russian Army, who has been convicted of revealing military secrets to Germany, has been sentenced to be immured for life in an underground dungeon ...
Article : 44 wordsCorporal Frederick Sylvester White, of the 5th South Australian Bushmen, died of enteric fever at Heilbron. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe steamer Aberdeen arrived in Sydney early yesterday morning from Capetown, via ports, with a number of New South Wales troops on board. The detachment included 31 [?].c.os. and men, principally ...
Article : 445 wordsThe vessel which was reported to be in distress near Inverloch on Saturday last turns out to be the ship Netherby. She is now at anchor in Hobson's Bay, having been towed to port by the Racer. The ...
Article : 671 wordsSir Charles Cameron, the father-in-law of Commander C. Sclater, of the screw sloop-of-war Condor, of which hope has been given up by the Admiralty, declares that the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Pope, in a long encyclical letter, which is generally regarded as embodying his testamentary dispositions, says that society in the present day is in a state of anarchy. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe two field companies of the Engineers in camp on the old rifl[?] range, Paddington, put in a good solid day's drill and instruction yesterday. The troops paraded for company drill in the morning, ...
Article : 296 wordsFour hundred soldiers belonging to the railway reserves mutinied in Milan and paraded the streets shouting, "We won't go to Tripoli." ...
Article : 49 wordsThe death is announced of Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, aged 77 years. Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke, R.E., ...
Article : 852 wordsThe Macedonians resident in Athens are petitioning the Powers to intervene and prevent the Bulgarians perpetrating atrocities in Macedonia. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe troopship Englishman arrived from Brisbane this afternoon, and ships a thousand tons of bay for South Africa. She is in very light trim, and the Queenslanders aboard are not yet used to her rolling. ...
Article : 49 wordsSome interesting and highly useful work was done by the camp to-day, the object being a lesson in defence. The reveille was sounded at 5 a.m. The troops had breakfast at 5.45, and half an hour later ...
Article : 1,382 wordsDuring the early celebration of Holy Communion at All Saints' Church on Easter Day Canon Potter [?]ainted, and fell heavily at the altar. He recovered consciousness on being removed to the open air, but ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia will visit Europe in August. ...
Article : 18 wordsA number of Queensland soldiers, returned from South Africa, arrived in Sydney on Sunday by the Tambo. They reached Hobart in the transport Atheme, and were tr[?]shipped at that port to the ...
Article : 157 wordsThe revenue returns for the quarter ending to-day were published this morning. The total revenue for the quarter was £58,342,207 to which customs contributed £9,915,733, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Constitution Act which was passed last session providing for the reduction of the number of members of the Legislative Council to 18, and of that of the Assembly to 42, and the members of the Cabinet ...
Article : 204 wordsA man named Cohen, who received a concession for the building of a pier at Delagoa Bay, is suing Portugal to recover £750,000 for breach of contract. ...
Article : 36 wordsOn the Government boatman visiting the leper station on Friday with a supply of rations for the Chinese leper there, he found that the unfortunate man had hanged himself a day or two previously. ...
Article : 99 wordsShortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a child named Annie Vera Thomas, aged 3½ years, was killed by an electric tram on the Military-road, Mosman. The child had been playing with some other ...
Article : 130 wordsIt is stated that the permissive clauses of the Education Bill for England and Wales recently introduced into the House of Commons will probably be abandoned. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Afri[?] White Star liner, arrived this morning. She loads 17,000 cases of fruit for London. ...
Article : 19 wordsPatrick Dillan, 70, a labourer, residing at Argyle-street, Surry Hills, was knocked down by a buggy in Cleveland-street yesterday afternoon. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital and admitted ...
Article : 43 wordsThe cable steamer Anglia has sailed from Auckland for Norfolk Island. Sir Joseph Ward has received the following cable from Mr. Chamberlain:—"Thank you for your telegram announcing the landing of ...
Article : 156 wordsAn approximate statement of the revenue for the quarter and nine months ended March 31 was issued to-day. The estimate of receipts for the year was £2,585,758, and the total approximate receipts for ...
Article : 161 wordsThe University of Chicago has deputed Mr. Alleyne Ireland a special commissioner to study all the European colonies in the Far East, including the Philippines. ...
Article : 48 wordsHenry Burch, of Queen-street, Woollahra, was knocked down by a bull at the Agricultural Show yesterday afternoon. He was conveyed by the Civil Ambulance to Sydney Hospital, where he was found ...
Article : 61 wordsA cabman named John Hickey, 24, of Nelson-street, Annandale, fell from his cab shortly before [?] o'clock yesterday morning, fracturing the base of his skull. He was conveyed by Constable White, of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 1 Apr 1902, Page 5
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